Massachusetts libraries copyright threat?
p2pnet news | P2P:- Is the Massachusett public library system in danger of finding itself on the wrong end of lawsuits sparked up by the RIAA and MPAA.
According to purple motes, audio and video items together now account for 32% of total item circulation.
And you know what that means!
Massachusetts citizens are watching and listening to music and movies without paying the entertainment cartels for the privilege.
Oh! The horror!
“Now persons have on-demand access to large, diverse collections of videos, similar to what they have had for books,” says the post, adding:
“Book digitization and internet publishing makes texts more readily accessible. But changes in access to video will have much larger effects than changes in access to print.”
(Thanks, pho 
)
Also See:
purple motes – print down slightly, video up sharply, June 24, 2007
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August 21st, 2007 at 6:35 am
Where I live, the county library system buys as many as 100 copies of popular dvds for circulation to citizens. Thats only one county of one state. It sounds like the taxpayers are giving the movie producers quite a bit of money. That doesn’t count the many school and university library systems. I don’t think some book publishers could survive without librarys. How many copies of the latest Bourne movie will libraries eventually buy/ 100k? 500k? Maybe the MPAA should just shut up about all the tax dollars their members eventually receive from the public.